Re: Cannot open firefox from link if it is already running

My installation (in an older slack distro) of thunderbird 0.7.3 has no 
/usr/lib/mozilla-anything directory. No prefs.js under the thunderbird 
installation directory (/usr/local/thunderbird). I tried adding it to 
~/.thunderbird/default/xxx.slt/prefs.js, but thunderbird overwrites 
this. Tried user.js in the same directory, but no joy.

Bob S.


Chris Kacoroski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried the script and got the same issue.  I finally got it to work 
> by adding the following to the prefs.js in the 
> /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird directory:
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","/usr/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","/usr/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp","/usr/bin/firefox");
>
>
>
> cheers,
>
> ski
>
> Jens Luedicke wrote:
>
> > Hi...
> >
> > I have the following script in /usr/local/bin:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > MOZILLA=/usr/bin/firefox
> >
> > if ($MOZILLA -a firefox -remote "ping()"); then
> >         $MOZILLA -a firefox -remote "openURL("$1",new-tab)"
> > else
> >         $MOZILLA $1
> > fi
> >
> > This works for me.
> > On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:11:57 -0700, Chris Kacoroski
> > <kacoroski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I have this problem also.  Did not happen with mandrake and
> > > thunderbird/firefox and kde.  Does happen with debian, xfce,
> > > thunderbird/firefox
> > >
> > > ski
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > >
> > > > Bob Snyder wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > When I click on a link in an email, for example, firefox opens a new
> > > > > tab, but the URL displayed is like this: file:///tmp/0qgcwitz-1.html.
> > > > > Firefox has copied the whole page to my /tmp, and opened it from
> > > > > there. Obviously the relative links don't work, but the absolute 
> > > > > links
> > > > > do.
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone else observe this behavior?
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry, this has gotten kind of off-topic.
> > > >
> > > > Thunderbird seems to be a bit broken. I have this too now, didnt used
> > > > to. Anyway, instead of feeding it the link, TB downloads the file to
> > > > /tmp and opens that with the browser.
> > > >
> > > >    Jasper
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> > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoroski@xxxxxxxxxxx, 435-681-0092
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